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Prof D Roberts, Dr I Drumm
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Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)
About the Project
Supervisors: Prof. David Roberts and Dr Ian Drumm
The proposed PhD looks to increase the understanding of the spatial and temporal alignment of multi-modal digital-media streams when helping humans in separate built environments to interact as if they were in the same place. This will supporting more kinds of interaction across a distance ultimately reducing the need for travel and the energy this requires.
Communication between people, be it verbal, non-verbal or both, includes many spatial aspects. Removing or distorting this spatiality in a conversation is known to confuse the conversation and make many interactions impossible. A growing body of work, including our own, suggests that a lack of spatiality in video conferencing is preventing it from becoming a general tool capable of removing a wide need for business travel. While it is generally accepted that synchronising audio and video cues in time and space would be very helpful, no one has achieved this to any reasonable quality. In particular they have not reproduced it to a sufficient quality to measure what a sufficient quality is. We propose to be the first to do so, firstly furthering the understanding the requirements in our word class and unique laboratories, and secondly validating what we have learned in the living lab of media city. The university has made a significant investment in upgrading the octave and acoustic facilities to support such work. We now have two labs which this PhD would connect and use. Both are big enough for person to move around a tellepresent other. Both integrate state of the art 3D visual and 3D audio technology. One offers more flexibility in visual and the other in audio display.
Industrial partner
BBC
Award:
The successful student must have a first degree (1st or 2.1 classification) in a relevant subject and be from the UK/EU.
The studentship includes fees paid at home/EU rate and a stipend of £13,500 per annum for three and a half years.
The award will commence on or shortly after 1st October 2011.
How to apply:
The application form should be completed online at:
http://www.salford.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/how_apply/
The closing date for applications is 30th September 2011
Enquiries should be made to Catriona Barkley [Email Address Removed]
For detailed information about any of these projects please contact the named supervisor(s).
The proposed PhD looks to increase the understanding of the spatial and temporal alignment of multi-modal digital-media streams when helping humans in separate built environments to interact as if they were in the same place. This will supporting more kinds of interaction across a distance ultimately reducing the need for travel and the energy this requires.
Communication between people, be it verbal, non-verbal or both, includes many spatial aspects. Removing or distorting this spatiality in a conversation is known to confuse the conversation and make many interactions impossible. A growing body of work, including our own, suggests that a lack of spatiality in video conferencing is preventing it from becoming a general tool capable of removing a wide need for business travel. While it is generally accepted that synchronising audio and video cues in time and space would be very helpful, no one has achieved this to any reasonable quality. In particular they have not reproduced it to a sufficient quality to measure what a sufficient quality is. We propose to be the first to do so, firstly furthering the understanding the requirements in our word class and unique laboratories, and secondly validating what we have learned in the living lab of media city. The university has made a significant investment in upgrading the octave and acoustic facilities to support such work. We now have two labs which this PhD would connect and use. Both are big enough for person to move around a tellepresent other. Both integrate state of the art 3D visual and 3D audio technology. One offers more flexibility in visual and the other in audio display.
Industrial partner
BBC
Award:
The successful student must have a first degree (1st or 2.1 classification) in a relevant subject and be from the UK/EU.
The studentship includes fees paid at home/EU rate and a stipend of £13,500 per annum for three and a half years.
The award will commence on or shortly after 1st October 2011.
How to apply:
The application form should be completed online at:
http://www.salford.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/how_apply/
The closing date for applications is 30th September 2011
Enquiries should be made to Catriona Barkley [Email Address Removed]
For detailed information about any of these projects please contact the named supervisor(s).
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